PLEASE NOTE: THE BRITISH LIBRARY IS EXPERIENCING AN OUTAGE! SOME MANUSCRIPTS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE AT THIS TIME! This means that some links will not actually display manuscripts at this time, sorry!
I've managed to get some major projects completed and posted for viewing.
I have several pieces of exceedingly pertinent secondary literature that I need to post on the Bibliography page and will try to do this soon. I also still have some cosmetic issues regarding the appearance and layout of the home page I'd like to fix up, as well as the list of issues to be dealt with given below (further loca/citation cleanup, explanation page, Thomas correspondence column on big catalogue, various bibliographical cleanup). I also plan to post a Notes page for Bodley 579's relic list in the near future, as I have been working closely with the manuscript in the process of doing some work for one of my accompanying chapters.
PLEASE NOTE: THE BRITISH LIBRARY IS EXPERIENCING AN OUTAGE! SOME MANUSCRIPTS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE AT THIS TIME! This means that some links will not actually display manuscripts at this time, sorry!
Fixed a shelfmark that I somehow missed in the process of shelfmark normalising.
I will soon be creating and uploading the prospective list of all canonical entities for markup. I also still need to resolve some cosmetic issues regarding the appearance and layout of the home page, as well as the list of issues to be dealt with given below (further loca/citation cleanup, explanation page, Thomas correspondence column on big catalogue, various bibliographical cleanup).
PLEASE NOTE: THE BRITISH LIBRARY IS EXPERIENCING AN OUTAGE! SOME MANUSCRIPTS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE AT THIS TIME! This means that some links will not actually display manuscripts at this time, sorry!
I have added a new page to describe and show the future plans for this project, including mockup of the interface and discussion of the XML markup itself. This was pretty desperately needed!
I still need to resolve some cosmetic issues regarding the appearance and layout of the home page, as well as the list of issues to be dealt with given below (further loca/citation cleanup, explanation page, Thomas correspondence column on big catalogue, various bibliographical cleanup).
PLEASE NOTE: THE BRITISH LIBRARY IS EXPERIENCING AN OUTAGE! SOME MANUSCRIPTS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE AT THIS TIME! This means that some links will not actually display manuscripts at this time, sorry!
Added further shelfmarks and loca to a couple of items.
See below for planned fixes: mostly further bibliographical cleanup, setting up a couple of explanatory pages (e.g., 'what is a relic list'), and adding a Thomas correspondence column on the big catalogue. Some things are still moving a bit slowly because of the British Library outage.
Quickly fixed a small issue on the complete relic lists page with a bibliographic citation appearing in the wrong place on the page.
I still need to resolve some cosmetic issues regarding the appearance and layout of the home page, as well as the list of issues to be dealt with given below (further loca/citation cleanup, explanation page, Thomas correspondence column on big catalogue, various bibliographical cleanup).
I've made a few changes to incorporate some choices in shaping the corpus, dealt with some housekeeping issues, and resolved a couple of small problems.
I need to resolve some cosmetic issues regarding the appearance and layout of the home page, as well as the list of issues to be dealt with given below (missing loca/citation cleanup, explanation page, Thomas correspondence column on big catalogue, various bibliographical cleanup).
I've completed some overhauling on the relic list tabular catalogues and retired the old pre-1300 catalogue. The notes on the manuscripts are now accessible by clicking a little icon set up in its own column, and the pre-1300 catalogue now makes use of dropdowns for the short descriptions. The old 'Correspondence' is now an explanatory page, which I think is a bit more elegant. The overall catalogue has had some of its entries condensed and others expanded. Wording on several of the short descriptions has been made more exact, especially in terms gospel types. All the has been done directly in the code editor, so in some places I will need to once more replace dumb quotes with smart ones, etc., but that can wait.
More tidying to be done around here with respect to manuscript loca and citations of relic list editions, some of which really need a 'page-page, at page-page' statement added to them. As usual, my energies are devoted first and foremost to the early materials for now. I plan to experiment with a lay-audience friendly page that explains what relic lists are and uses an iframe to display a manuscript on the same page, but that's for a later date. The big catalogue also needs the Thomas sigla correspondence column added to it, which I will handle a little later.
I know I also need to adjust the way I have styled this Iframe that display the newsfeed scroll, as well. I am currently still very busy with drafting things related to funding, so some of the more fun aspects aspects of the site will have to wait a little longer...
msIDs D5 and D6 have been switched around, such that D5_1.A now refers to the list in Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. I. 27, on p. 194, and D6_3 refers to the 'Liber de Reliquiis' in Durham Cathedral MS B.II.35, ff. 192r–198v. I have also reworded some things in the explanatory bit at the top.
The pre-1300 catalogue is being overhauled a final time, after I realized it really needed a different format than the complete catalogue. The new format for the pre-1300 lists eliminates the need for reference to a separate correspondence table, as it includes the Thomas sigla already on it and displays some information in a more compact format.
I've completed a mass overhaul of listID standards across the whole site and in all XML editions. I have also fixed a couple of broken links caused by file renaming and updated the correspondence table page to be more descriptive of methodology for listIDs.
I will slowly begin adding more information to MS context pages a little at a time, as well as crosslinking them to one another. It is also possible that I will split the massive context page for the Durham lists into three context pages and disambiguate their entries in the tables; additionally it is possible that I will group the Tw1_1 lists together into a single heading. I still have to think about my best options on that one, but for now this will stay as they are.
The id system for texts and manuscripts is still being overhauled in some places on the site, but I have completed the biggest parts of it.
I have yet to finish updating the XML alpha editions to the new listID standard, but this will be should be done soon. For now I am leaving the old lists up, as when I update these I also have to update a lot of file names and links in the catalogues, as well as the subdirectory for the relic lists.
Mostly a few fixes for cosmetic things. Additionally, as I reviewed things, I realize I need to overhaul my textID system one more time to make it truly logically sound and consistent, as well as update the Correspondence tool again afterward. So, for the time being,
Before I do anything else, I will be updating the TextID system across the entire site. This will take a little bit of time because I have two catalogues to manually correct, and I also need to correct the XML of the editions themselves, plus the subindex they reside on. I will complete this work tomorrow and update the catalogues and other pages as needed.
I have added a massive update to the manuscript details page for the group of Durham lists. If you know the name 'Bertram Colgrave' and like to look at handwritten autograph notes of the scholars of yesteryear, you'll really want to have a look.
I am aware I need to adjust some of the titles and other details/elements of the few currently posted relic lists editions. I will do this soon. Additionally, I will be setting up a formal testing area on my site for my own use. It will not visible to end users, however, unless I decide to be silly and hide a secret link to it somewhere on the site. I am also still in the process of writing the section that defines and explains relic lists, at least in a preliminary manner, but I expect to have some good progress on this soon. I am still writing funding things at this time, but have made it more or less to the final leg of the first draft, so from this point I should be able to go back to working on the site a bit more.
I have added new tabular catalogue that focuses on pre-1300 material and made a few other tweaks, particularly regarding IDs/sigla. The pre-1300 catalogue will likely be expanded to record more detailed information at a later point.
The index page's tooltips are still an ongoing issue in terms of looks, but they do work now. There are some tweaks I will make to the Relic List catalogue in a bit regarding the structuring of some entries (I think I may have a duplicate, and some entries need further disambiguation).
I'm still trying to get my tooltips functioning for the menu bar on the left of the index, but there's some kink I can't seem to work out, annoyingly.
I've decided to implement an update section on the Loca Sanctorum index page so that users will know which areas of the site they might want to check up on. If you're looking for up-to-date stuff, the best thing is to check the Progress Tracker, as I input information into that Google Sheet before I publish it in a tidy way on Loca Sanctorum. So, if you can decipher my note-taking, that's always your best bet. I do usually push out major updates about once a week, though--which from now on will be announced right here!